Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Sepia Saturday 105 : Saturday 17 December 2011

The Festive Season is almost upon us and I thought I might give you something of a festive prompt - and this is quite some feast!. It is an illustration from the 1901 Edition of Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book (courtesy of the State Library of Queensland’s collection, courtesy of Flickr Commons). As you can see, the food on offer includes a raised game pie; pigeon pie; lamb cutlets; piped ham and boned capon. So you have a veritable cornucopia of visual prompts which should have you posting up with the stuffed larks. For Sepia Saturday 105 post your posts on or around Saturday 17th December.

The Saturday after that will be Christmas Eve and the one after that, New Years' Eve. I have therefore decided to make Sepia Saturday 106 an open seasonal call which will cover both Christmas and New Year (I will put the call post up early next week). The normal Sepia Saturday fare will return with Sepia Saturday 107 on the 7th January 2012. But all that is in the future : for now just tuck in to SS105, Bon appetit!

The more Pigeon Pies, the less pigeons there are to eat my garden vegetables.

Stufferd Larks sounds interesting ... and combined with the Chick in Aspic above reminded me of the King Crimson 1973 album, "Lark's Tongue in Aspic". Until today I was sure it couldn't possibly exist and was a prog-rock 'joke' but this picture suggests it may actually be real. Will have to research it.

I'm not quite ready with my post yet, so will comment again once it's up.

And may I say that the prompt reminds me that food used to be an art form in the home kitchen as well as in a fancy restaurant. Not that I have ever used my molds for anything other than decoration, but I wonder if it would be all that difficult to make a shaped aspic...

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.